Florian Drescher is hosting another cloud training session. I did this before and think he’s a great teacher. I would go again, but I am going to Startup Weekend LA (same weekend). The cost is $20. Q Connects is in the Howard Hughes complex.
Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2
This course [...]
Continue Reading →Wow. This sounds pretty cool. Anyone know the best way to bid on unused CPU cycles?
Continue Reading →I came across some more articles on cloud-based performance. Today, I am looking at the performance of EBS on Amazon and the use of RAID 10 for disk writes. If you have a lot of writes to disk, then seriously consider something other than RAID 10. Generally though, EBS [...]
Continue Reading →The Bitsource only compared the compile time of a Linux kernal, but according to this article, CloudServers > EC2 (better performing, lower cost).
Here’s what the article is about:
“The Bitsource conducted a review of the two cloud computing platforms, Rackspace Cloud Servers and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to get [...]
I’m so excited. We have an awesome speaker for January’s LA CTO Forum: Rick Parker of Fetch Technologies. Check it out:
Building Your Own Private Cloud
Rick Parker will present his experience and perspective in building a private cloud infrastructure from the bottom up for Fetch Technologies. Over the past three years, Rick has leveraged [...]
Continue Reading →In case you hadn’t heard, Google Apps is taking on government organizations. I found this on socaltech.com:
LA Goes Live With Google
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The City of Los Angeles has gone live with Google’s cloud software suite,
Google Apps, Google said Monday. Google won the a $7.2M contract with the
city back [...]

